Both were involved in Kansas' first investigative genetic genealogy cases and formed a county-wide officer-involved shooting team. Their instruction is practical, supervisory-focused, and built on real-world experience managing risk, supporting detectives, and ensuring investigations hold up under scrutiny.
Supervising Major Investigations is a two-day, practitioner-led course designed for supervisors responsible for managing detectives, complex cases, and high-risk investigative decisions. Taught by former homicide, gang/major-crimes, and special victims supervisors, this course focuses on what effective supervision actually looks like when investigations are under pressure, incomplete, and subject to scrutiny.
The course is built around real supervisory challenges—not theory—and reflects practices that contributed to record-high clearance rates in fatal and non-fatal shootings, successful investigative genetic genealogy cases, and the supervision of sensitive and officer-involved investigations. Emphasis is placed on consistency, quality control, and sound decision-making from initial response through charging and review.
Participants will learn how to support investigators without micromanaging, identify investigative risk early, and ensure cases are built to withstand internal review, prosecutorial standards, and courtroom scrutiny.
Key topics include:
✅ Supervising science-based interviewing and interrogation practices
✅ Creating and overseeing evidence disclosure and evidence-disclosure plans
✅ Red teaming investigative theories to prevent tunnel vision and groupthink
✅ Strategic use of evidence at the supervisory level
✅ Building and managing peer review for major and sensitive cases
✅ Supervising officer-involved and critical incident investigations
✅ Quality control for charging decisions, affidavits, and case file integrity
✅ Coaching detectives and supervisors for long-term investigative success
The course includes hands-on exercises, realistic case scenarios, and supervisory decision-making drills that mirror real investigative pressures. Participants receive cheat sheets, frameworks, and supervisory tools they can immediately implement within their units to strengthen investigations and reduce avoidable errors.
This training is appropriate for field supervisors, investigative supervisors, and command staff responsible for oversight of major cases, critical incidents, or investigative units.
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3770 Yost Dr, Salina, KS 67401, United States
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